minority是什么意思？

minority

英[maɪˈnɒrəti] 美[maɪˈnɔrəti]

• n. 少数，少数民族，未成年；

复数：minorities;

例句

• the view of a small but vociferous minority 人数少但高声喧嚷者的观点
• A minority of children are sexually active before they are in their teens. 少数孩子十几岁前已有性行为。
• A lot of national parks lie in the areas inhabited by minority nationality people. 许多国家公园都位于少数民族聚居的地方。
• Only a minority of British households do not have a car. 英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
• Li minority children who have no toys play a piglet. 缺少玩具的山区黎族儿童把小猪当作宠物.
• The minority should submit to the majority. 少数应服从多数.
• Such persons are certainly in the minority. 这种人当然占少数.
• Boys are very much in the minority at the dancing class. 舞蹈班里男生占极少数.
• It consists of an unthreatening minority position. 它持有不具威胁性的少数股权。
• And that we are basically being the majority oppressing the minority in a different light. 少数派发出不同的光芒,而我们就是压迫他们的多数派.

同义词

• n.
  minority的同义词之：少数,少数票
  smaller, part, less, handful, than, half,
  minority的同义词之：少数派,少数民族
  contingent, side, ethnic, section, group, faction,
  minority的同义词之：未成年,未到法定年龄
  girlhood, juniority, adolescence, childhood, boyhood, infancy, pupilage, nonage, juvenility,
• minority的同义词之：其他释义
  youth,

反义词

• n.
  minority的反义词之：少数;未成年
  majority,
• minority的反义词之：其他释义
  majority,

词组

• be (或 find oneself) in a minority of one
  (often humorous)be the sole person to be in favour of or against something (常幽默)是孤家寡人；得不到任何支持
• in the minority
  belonging to or constituting the smaller group or number 属少数派；占少数的

英语四级真题

Some day you may be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people from other countries or members of minority group in North America.
出自-2011年12月听力原文
In some cultures, both overseas and in some minority groups in North America, listeners are considered disrespectful if they look directly at the speaker
出自-2011年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-SING
  少数; 少数派
  If you talk about a minority of people or things in a larger group, you are referring to a number of them that forms less than half of the larger group, usually much less than half.
  例句
  Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers... 当地政府提供的保育服务只有少数上班族母亲才能够享受到。 These children are only a small minority. 这些孩子只是很少的一部分。
• N-COUNT
  少数民族；少数群体
  A minority is a group of people of the same race, culture, or religion who live in a place where most of the people around them are of a different race, culture, or religion.
  例句
  ...the region's ethnic minorities... 这个地区的少数民族 Students have called for greater numbers of women and minorities on the faculty... 学生要求聘请更多女教师和少数民族族裔的老师。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  少数, 小部分
  Only a minority of British households do not have a car. 英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
  少数民族, 少数信仰不同的人
  The interests of the minorities should be protected. 少数民族的利益应该得到保护。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
  2. being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts;
  "when the vote was taken they were in the minority""he held a minority position"
  3. any age prior to the legal age